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Far from the Madding Crowd

CHAPTER XVI
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At last he did turn, and stalked resolutely down the nave, braving them all, with a compressed lip.

Two bowed and toothless old almsmen then looked at each other and chuckled, innocently enough; but the sound had a strange weird effect in that place.
Opposite to the church was a paved square, around which several overhanging wood buildings of old time cast a picturesque shade.

The young man on leaving the door went to cross the square, when, in the middle, he met a little woman.

The expression of her face, which had been one of intense anxiety, sank at the sight of his nearly to terror.
"Well ?" he said, in a suppressed passion, fixedly looking at her.
"Oh, Frank--I made a mistake!--I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said.

I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'.


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